How @mattbrailsford is using the Screenr oEmbed

Our friend @mattbrailsford is a developer and a fan of Umbraco the Open Source CMS and Screenr. He is such a big fan of Screenr that he added support in his Umbraco Universal Media Picker for Screenr.

What is Umbraco

Umbraco is a Content Management System built on Microsoft platforms, kinda like Wordpress for Windows Servers. If you want to find out more about it, check out the Umbraco website at http://umbraco.org.

What is the Universal Media Picker

It is a package installed to Umbraco that allows users to easily embed content from a variety of different providers like Scribd, Facebook, and of course Screenr.

How he did it

Getting the users screencasts
Matt uses the RSS feed for the specified user to get a list of their recent screencasts:
http://screenr.com/User/mattbrailsford/rss

Getting the embed code automatically
Once Matt get’s the list of the screencasts for the user, he uses the Screenr oEmbed API to get the embed code fore each screencast. Find out more about Screenr’s oEmbed here.

Using all this information, Matt is able to present users a list of their Screenr screencasts so that they can quickly and easily embed them in their Umbraco sites without copying any embed code. All a user needs to do is select select their Screenr screencast in the Universal Media Picker and it gets automatically posted to their site.